Hello, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > >> Turns out that the problem was with a stale /var/lib/gdm – which makes >> me wonder: we do we have this at all? “/var/lib/gdm” is the “gdm” user >> account’s home directory. But it’s not like this really needs to be >> persistent, I think. > > Yes, I wonder if it’s supposed to be persistent in the first place. I > guess ~gdm/.cache can help speed things up maybe, and perhaps there are > persistent settings too, like the a18n stuff? > >> I moved it out of the way and the gdm login prompt appeared within a few >> seconds. After restarting xorg-server the directory was recreated. > > So I moved ~gdm/.cache and ~/.cache out of the way and restarted > ‘xorg-server’. After that, I was still unable to log in I removed pretty both .cache directories, moved .config sub-directories around, etc., and yet I am still unable to log in into the GNOME account (logging in to a non-GNOME account from GDM is fine.) I even tried upgrading the user’s profile just in case is contained incompatible schemas or who knows what, but that didn’t help. What extra bit of state am I missing? Thanks, Ludo’.
